THE OUTSIDER - BY STEPHEN KING (Review)
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- Опубліковано 3 вер 2018
- My review of the new Stephen King novel, The Outsider. A horror story that reaches deep into Stephen King's dark mind to produce one of his best works to date.
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I thought this one was creepy as hell and I enjoyed catching up with Holly.
The audiotrack version. The voice actor is kind of annoying with her portrayal. She speaks in chopped sentences and high and low tones that sound out of place. Like they chopped together each word and it was coming from a robot
Nobody:
Stephen King: Jizz
The Outsider was a good book. Read it liked it. Stephen King is the greatest American writer of the last 60-70 years. Yes he gets a little graphic with his descriptions yes he overwrites certain aspects and tends to really stress descriptive backgrounds/characters. His endings are normally a let down to readers because that is his view on life. The journey is more important than the destination in his opinion. His “monsters” and story arcs are unparalleled in my opinion. If you want a good quick story read Dean Koontz. If you want an experience read Stephen King. He said the reason his monsters die so easily is because the hard part in life isn’t usually doing something. The hard part is building the courage to act. Which is what imo Stephen King is so great at. Giving us an average flawed human and making us believe they found the courage to confront “evil”
I'm a huge Stephen King fan. Great comment. You nailed it.
We need more endings like The Running Man. A good solid, "Wow I loved that ending" ending. Sometimes it seems like he just doesn't know how to end a story but knows he has to so he wings it.
I didn't know that. Thank you it all makes sense now.
Spoken like a true King fan.
He'd be more enjoyable to read if he wasn't so political in his stories...
This was my first Stephen King book. There’s a certain part that was spoiled for me online, and that kinda sucked, but other than that, liked the building tension throughout the story.
And yeah, the ending was pretty anti-climactic in my opinion.
The book was very descriptive and kept me intrigued, but the ending was a little cheesy
Reported for tom, harry, DICK spoilers: why do people passive aggressively do this??
Me: "don't tell me the story I haven't seen it yet!"
Proceeds to avoid spoilers BUT says the passive aggressive anthem: "BUT THE ENDING WAS....(insert pointed adjective)." SONOFA!
True
So it was a Stephen King book?
I definitely like your reviews far better than other channels. Very intelligent and compartmentalized.
Great job.
I completly agree with your comments on the ending. Especially compared to King's other outstanding endings, i feel i was wanting much more at the end.
My favorite's Misery. Always has.
Its great
Classic book. I loved it.
Jason Michael Aries honestly it’s his only book that I could binge read. Seeing as I read in segments usually. Great book
It is an all-time favorite and, having just read The Outsider last month, it's definitely competing for the slot of favorite Stephen King. I got strong It vibes from the story, but I thought the book was maybe better done, given all the practice King has had since publishing It. I also really enjoyed Gerald's Game by King, if you haven't read that one yet. I'm fairly new to Stephen King as well, and I've only read half a dozen or so of his books, but I'm enjoying his work a lot.
I was tempted to get the Outsider (mostly because of that amazing cover) But I've gotten mired in two too many of his books. My biggest issue with King is that he gives waaay too much information. Backstory for main characters is great. Sidecharacters. Sure. But do we really need their ENTIRE life's arc? Especially at the cost of pausing plot progression each time. It gets tedious. VERY tedious. This coupled with his fondness for a wide array of (imo) tonally similar characters is why I probably won't buy another book till I finish The Stand. That said, Salem's Lot was fantastic and scared the daylight out of me when I read it a year or two back. Skeleton Crew also has some standout stories (like the raft). When he does scary, he does it masterfully.
I can agree with this to an extent. Salems Lot was my first, and I remember the first time I tried to read it I thought the same way. At first it seemed like there was so much backstory and character development and I just wanted to hop into the scary parts. Put it down before even getting a quarter through it. When I picked it up and read it again I really appreciated the character development. It made the names hard to forget as I was reading through the book, and actually made me care about everyone. Thats actually become the main reason I like Kings books now, the way he describes and outlines all his characters, while it can be tedious, just helps me appreciate them more in the long run
I think Joyland gets overlooked. I really loved it.
James Storie that’s my next book
Just finished that audiobook myself and really liked it. It was great to see him bring back the psuedo-detective from the "Mr. Mercedes" books. Those ones are worth checking out, but I would really reccomend "Desperation". It's in my top 3 of his works for sure and he also used the same characters, or at least their names, in a parallel universe for Bachman's "The Regulators".
But definitely check out "Desperation" its worth a credit on audible and King narrates it himself too, which I always like the ones he does.
The Bill Hodges trilogy is awesome.
Your haircut looks great!!
I love King but I didn’t love this one. I liked the first half more. IMO his best recent book is Revival. It was strong from page one and through the ending.
Revival was great but I thought the ants were a cop out. I was waiting for some unimaginable, lovecraftian landscape of inexplicable um ... something, but we got ants.
I wonder if you noticed the creature was tied to the shining. As in the close relationship he shared with the true knot creatures. Most of the power it had was the shine
Great review bruv. I've been wanting to read this. Have you read The Talisman by Stephen King? I'm just curious what your thoughts would be on that.
The talisman is really good but underrated
I went into this audiobook blind, and I couldn’t stop listening to it. The first 2 1/2s in I had to force myself to stop because it was getting late.
This was the first book I was introduced to Holly. She’s very interesting and added so much to the book. I will have to seek out the other books that she appears in.
You weren't annoyed by how he portrayed her voice?
What novels have you read? I recommend Revival, The Dead Zone, Salem’s Lot, his short story collections, and of course I know you’re reading The Dark Tower.
LOVED THIS BOOK!!! Can't wait to read it again...another good one I want to read again is Lisey's Story😊
It is definitely pretty good. I was quite engrossed until three quarters of the way through, and then the tension really started to fall. The supernatural part to the story somehow didn't really have the same grip as the more human element. It was hard to have the same connection to the characters once certain parts of the plot were resolved - and that was fairly early on. I wouldn't call this horror I must say. It was more a crime novel with a paranormal theme towards the end. Personally the fantastic/supernatural ideas didn't work for me.
I’m kind of confused about something
(Involving spoilers)
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At some point, Holly mentions “The shining” movie which sort of confirms that the book isn’t part of the S.K universe but in the boss fight when they talk to the outsider and he mentions the word “Ka”, which leaves me asking what does it mean having the shining as a movie in the book and the word Ka in the same universe?
Great review. Just finished the book and agree virtually point by point
I just finished the book and it's my first King's novel ever. I did notice this book was a sequel, but this thought of the outsider being "IT" just goes on tormenting my mind, any thoughts? I mean, the resemblance is everywhere and we can start by the cover of the book...
You’re not alone in thinking this. I actually wrote all the similarities I saw in both books down and used them on a final project for my modern lit class.
Great review! My favorite King book is IT! No doubt about it.
I would love to see your reaction to The Long Walk. It's fantastic.
It's one of my very favourites, I've probably read it more than any book
I'm sure someone has already brought it to your attention in case you didn't already know but this is somewhat of a sequel to the mr. Mercedes series. That is where the character Holly comes from and I highly recommended as it is a very different take on detective stories with Supernatural elements.
I just finished this. I thought it was very good disturbing and creepy as hell. The murders were disgusting and the more you found out about the outsider it brought up more questions. I just thought near the end it dragged and the ending was weak and disappointing but regardless a great read and amped up my imagination
When you were already familiar with Holly Gibney character when you read this one or not yet?
That chapter where they are going to the arraignment is seared in my memory. Really amazing writing. This was my first King novel I have read, and was pleasantly surprised. I thought the ending was a bit anticlimactic with the monster, but I thought it fit with the story pretty well. Gonna try Salems Lot next.
That was the high point of the book. Just about everything after that was a disappointment to me. Salem's Lot is vastly superior in every possible way.
Lol one of the most popular writers... ever... and you where surprised you liked it? Lol he has some good books. IT is my favorite but that's the relatability to the characters.
eric gen rogues Yeah I was actually. I'm not a fan of horror books in general, so I never really tried him out. The only reason I did was because the description of the Outsider was that it was a mystery novel that has a supernatural twist....which got my interest. And because I enjoyed it, I'm gonna give his more loved books a shot.
Also, another reason I never picked King books up is because every friend I have that has read him (not to mention Reddit and other msg boards) say that he is amazing with the buildup, but is crappy with endings. And endings to me are what make the book worthwhile. Not saying it has to be a happy ending, but it has to be a satisfying ending at the very least. And apparently King has had an issue with that.
But he's 1/1 so far in my eyes, so I'll keep rollin
The Long Walk is clearly his best book. Also, its only like 300-400 pages, so it isn't even that long.
I completely agree with you on all aspects of your review. This was my first Steven King novel besides the Shining which I read as a teenager. I loved the book overall and will definitely pick up more of his books.
I thought it was good but I preferred the first half of the book. Beginning was a 8/10 but the end kinda made it drop to a 6.5/10. Still enjoyed it
If you're looking for an often overlooked bad ass novel, check out The Eyes of the Dragon. It's in my top 3 favorite Stephen King novels of all time.
Dark Tower connections?
I finished this book earlier this week. my next TBR are a beta read for a friend auther and reading On Writing by stephen king.
My favourite Stephen King novel is Bag of Bones. It's the only audiobook that I listened to twice in a row.
Hi from uk!! I don’t like horror books 😔... always look forward watching ur videos. Happy reading to u!!
It is funny that I am seeing this Outsider review when I am three quarters of the way through my next fave writer Dean Koontz called What The Night Knows and I would say that it is quite an evil read with a supernatural twist and the character developments are written solidly by the author also. If it is just a well-written thriller you are in the mood for anytime I highly recommend Jefferey Deaver who wrote the Bone Collector series amongst many other of that psychopath chasing or crime scene investigation -type genre.
oh how i long for the days daniel mostly did reviews.
You should read Revival. One of his darkest books imo.
@louchiel lariosa it is very similar to Lovecraft horror
I liked the ending confrontation in CONCEPT, but it wasn’t actually explored nearly to its potential. The characters having a conversation with this strange, bizarre monster, and it seemingly having these insecurities, was interesting, but then they just kill it immediately. Weird, considering that there is then like 50 pages of useless “what comes after” boring filler
The Outsider is an excellent book but if you are looking for more disturbing sh*t you have to read Pet Cemetery. Even Mr. King in his intro was saying I went too far in this one😅
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* Sematary
Sounds like he's using his writing strengths from Salems Lot. Il hafto bump this one up on my to read list
Cut out at 2:24 as this is still on my TBR pile
Currently reading it and i don't think it's one of his best books, kind of boring with a lot of useless chatter. Stephen King has written masterpieces throughout all these years and the outsider is definately not one of them but still it's The King!!!
The shining was the first Stephen king book I read and is still my favourite. I have not read many others as most have too much sexual violence scenes or analogies for me personally.
Ellen Dixon Lol get over it
I think if this was my first king book I would have enjoyed it more. All I could think was “this character is exactly the same as the one in his other book”.
Just finished Dracula thanks for the spoiler warning homie ❤️❤️ I’m subscribing now lmao
I just finished this book last night.
Langoliers in Four Past Midnight. So good
I've muscled my way through so many SK novels bc when he gets it right, it's oh so very right. But I have complaints which make me hesitate. 1) Many times a fantastic, strong premise fizzles upon completion. Violin crescendo ending in a squeak indeed! 2) He over describes. Sometimes I love it, sometimes it's tedious, but there's no doubt he gets away with long digressions and wordy tangents. Much like I'm doing right here in my comment LOL 3) Sexual violence. Like seriously, what is his damage???? I can think of many many times when it was simply gratuitous, maybe even a lazy shortcut to demonstrate "evil person" or "evil influence". IMO, he is welcome to wax poetic about body fluids, and I will tolerate it just fine, in the context of CONSENSUAL situations. I would very much welcome recommendations that take that final complaint into consideration :)
My fave SK books? As a teenager I was wrecked by The Stand, made everyone I knew read it so we could all be paranoid about people sneezing together LOL
The Dark Tower, but really only the first 3 books have my heart and soul.
And... Insomnia. I never hear people praise it! Weird and awesome, I freaking loved it. And extra special bc my FIL gave it to me, the only book he ever bought me. My husband & I both read and loved it, and got to rant about it together 💓
You know the scene in "Misery" were Annie Wilks talks about these cinema-screenings were every episode ended with a our hero in a situation that seems impossible to escape from? She realised there was no clever twist, that they went round the problem to continue like nothing happened, that they cheated. "He didnt get of of the cookadoodie car!" Well, thats how I felt when realising whats behind it all in the Outsider. There is no clever twist, no bright explenation or mindboggeling realisation. He didnt get out of the cookadoodle car, indeed.
Daniel,
If you are like me and like to follow up dark or difficult reads with light or funny reads, you should try Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series. He’s a little out there... imagine a cocktail of Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut and Monty Python. Set in a dystopian alternate reality based in England where literary figures are held in higher regard than movie or tv stars, Britain has been fighting the Crimean War for 130 years, Wales is a communist country and the public is obsessed with who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. The Eyre Affair is the first in the series, and follows literary detective Thursday Next as she delves into a case in which characters are being stolen out of famous books. It sounds literary and lofty. It’s really not. It’s absurd and funny. Some familiarity with Jane Eyre would be good, if only by reading a plot summary somewhere... but I think you mentioned you like Hitchhiker’s Guide... if so, you will like Jasper Fforde.
The Outsider is my current reading. Like your review. Can I friend you on the goodreads?
This was my 2nd King book I've read (the first being The Shining) and this one didn't quite do it for me. I really enjoyed the first half of this book a lot but once the supernatural elements kicked in it felt pretty boring and predictable. I didn't hate the book but it wasn't great either. Very meh
Loved this book
I like how the shining is a movie in the books universe
You should check out Christine
Want to read Holly, so now reading The Outsider
Starting a Stephen king is boring,there is usually a lot of descriptions, post mortem of characters but finally when you get the grip it's a very enjoyable journey. That's why people like the movies more based on his novels..He is genius..Look at some movies like the Shawshank redemption,Misery,Green mile. They are just masterpieces . That means the core story is really mindfucking awesome but the lot of descriptions kind of kills the enjoyment..I remember I was reading 'The outsider' by Stephen King . The thrill was really good but suddenly when Terry Maitland( the center character of this book) dies things became crazy, supernatural stuffs entered where it wasn't needed. The thing is his books needs a lot of trim's, that's it. Then they will surely become more enjoyable. I left The outsider at halfway..Should I finish it?
The mr.mercedes series got me hooked on stephen king, I've been reading other books since; this book was great all the way through especially with holly but the ending was just rubbish, it felt rushed.
The Long Walk is his best book
not by a long shot
@@playermartin286 Lol!
Please tell me you were being sarcastic when you said he knows how to end books. He is known for bad endings. (Raw bacon saves the world for example) He is one of my favorite authors but come on man. Endings aren’t his thing and in my opinion this was a stronger than normal end.
Doctor Sleep is also great - better than the movie which was good
You had me at piss, jizz and poop. I'm in.
Best part was Det ralph and holly teaming up 🔥
Stephen King knows how to end horror novels?
WUT?? :)
ending was terrible
Stephen King is synonymous for not knowing how to finish a novel right. Everything else is usually diamonds, but his endings typically fall short.
I must have been lucky with the books from him I have read then. I really have only ready his "greatest", so it makes sense those would be the exceptions to what you are saying.
His endings are not the best imo but this is probably due to his "oh, I write a story and we will look where the book may end!" (the complete opposite of Brandon Sanderson, who has probably thought out the story of the book that he will write in the year 2056) SK has other strenghts though, characters for example.
I feel not everyone has the same "favorite" SK book, but he has a lot of very good books. The Long Walk, Misery, Needful Things, Dark Tower 4, The Running Man are my personal favorites.
Jack Poontaint I found The Outsider had a satisfying ending
Darktower has the perfect ending.
@@turtleanton6539 Dark Tower ending was utter garbage.
Damn, I was putting laundry in and didn’t pause in time! How you you start off by staying the ending is underwhelming, now I don’t want to finish it!
Great tension builder let down by a weak final confrontation
Someone on amazon whined about the murders of the book. And I'm like well duhh. They were disgusting and disturbing as hell it made me cringe but it was part of the horror. The crime was gross so it made the threat of the outsider even more impactful. Stephen King plays on his own fears obviously and he once said his worst fear if anything happened to his kids. But since hes a writer he gets more elaborate.
Just finished reading lol Ralph was scaring me for a second Like ummmm bruh you're getting a lil too secretive and lovey dovey with Holly lol
Read King's son's book, NOS4A2! Real damn good. I wasn't super happy with the ending but the book as a whole was good, and you can really tell that his son grew up reading his father's work and tried to make something of his own while copying his father's in a way to tell a story.
But yes I read the Outsider a few month's back right after it came out and it was real good. i thought there could have been another element added in to make the story better. It felt like there was something missing. But when I thought about it more, it was one of his more concise and tied up books in decades.
Jack Poontaint never read NOS4A2 but horns was really good
The HBO series is better than the book in my opinion.
The reviewer seems to be making excuses for King. This COULD have been one his best works to date & that's why The Outsider (isn't that a Lovecraft story) was very disappointing for me. The build-up was very well done but I wanted to hurl the book out the window for the ending. Stephen King knows how to end a horror novel? Sometimes. Not this time. Holly Gibney had no place in this book. The characters were very well developed & could have figured things out for themselves without bringing in a gratuitous character from another book to kill off Pennywise, I mean The Library Policeman, I mean The Outsider with one hit from a sock full of ball bearings. A better ending would have been having the Minotaur from Rose Madder show up & battle The Outsider Dreamcatcher-style, peppered with lots of wisecracking one-liners.
The book was great the ending I don’t like it I think it would be better if it was person who did all this (aka really smart person)
That would be boring, come on its Stephen King's book
Good.
Reading it now!!! LOL
Maybe on of these days I will read a Stephen King novel...
Second attempt to finish this "woke" horror story and I gave up again into two thirds of the book.
I have to say I am highly disappointed with this book!! It is definitely the worst Stephen King book I read and I absolutely don’t recommend reading it!!!
Spoiler!! The book was good, but the final confrontation.... Socks!!
honestly, this book has so many problems, I'm actually disappointed in this review!
the first half of the book is so much worst than the second half! and the second isn't much better! if an author not as famous as King wrote this, people would really tear him a new one!
- there are so many scenes where King starts to describe his ass off! I mean he gets into so so so many unnecessary details! you can even skip complete paragraphs and you won't miss anything! it's not even to set up a mood or a place or anything it's just there to fill pages! thankfully it gets much better in the second half of the book.
- so many people don't like catfish cuz they think they're ugly, but add some lemon and they're delicious and . . . . WHY, GOD WHY, why do all the characters in the first half of the book have to have these kinds of stupid things to say?! they're talking about a murder and these characters start to talk about the most stupid page filling crap of all time! WHY? they're background character that we see only once, so why do we need to know these crap about them? again thank god it got much better in the second half of the book!
- by the way, Holly was the best character in the book, none of the other characters come even close! as much as I thought liked Ralph, after Holly was introduced I just realized how bad his character and every other character is comparing to Holly!
- one thing I didn't like about Holly was her theories about the outsider, the theories were fine but the fact that ALL OF THEM were spot on was just stupid! in the final fight, the outsider pretty much confirmed every single thing Holly said about him! that was ridiculous!
overall the second half where the supernatural was openly introduced is so much better, it's almost like two different people wrote the two half of the book! I give the first half of the book a score of 5/10 and the second half the score of 7.5/10!
It's a good read but it's not really anything special! 6.5/10
I actually liked The outsider. I’ve read this book 10 times and listened to it on audible , about 10 times as well.
Holly Gibney (among other things) ruined this book for me. I can't stand her. I feel like King wanted to write another Hodges trilogy type story, but since Bill Hodges is dead, he had to come up with another character that somewhat resembled him: Ralph Anderson. A strong start, but went downhill fast. 2.5/5.
WE BROKE GODS LAW. 2000 YEARS AGO, GOD PROVIDED A SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST WHO SUFFERED AND TOOK OUR PUNISHMENT ON THE CROSS. THE BIBLE SAYS IF WE DECLARE WITH OUT MOUTH JESUS IS LORD AND BELIEVE IN OUR HEART GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD YOU SHALL BE SAVED. Romans 10-9. GOD WILL FORGIVE YOUR SINS AND GRANT YOU EVERLASTING LIFE ALL BECAUSE OF WHAT JESUS DID ON THE CROSS
I think that The Outsider is a D tier King book
"This is his best novel since IT" How can you make that statement when you said you didn't read all of his books???? Also you couldn't be more wrong, you really don't know King to say that. Revival, Green Mile, 11/22/63 are just a few that are way better than The Out
sider.
This was the worst King book that I have read and I have read 90% of his works.
Really poor book.
Felt rushed halfway through.
Very cheap bringing Holly back.
Disappointed 4/10.
This guy is actually biased towards King, novel was good but the ending so was disappointing AF
People who are let down with the scene where the outsider dies with what almost seems like he didn’t put up a fight….. people forget what they have read like for the whole investigation when holly finds out that he feeds on children you realise he is weak when he is hiding in the cave THATS WHY HES THERE BECAUSE HES WEAK!!!
so it didn’t even have the velocity of trying to take them down confidently! 😂